"Zuerst müssen wir bemerken, dass die Welt kugelförmig ist, theils weil diese Form, als die vollendete, keiner Fuge bedürftige Ganzheit, die vollkommenste von allen ist, theils weil sie die geräumigste Form bildet, welche am meisten dazu geeignet ist, Alles zu enthalten und zu bewahren; oder auch weil alle in sich abgeschlossene Theile der Welt, ich meine die Sonne, den Mond und die Planeten, in dieser Form erscheinen; oder weil Alles dahin strebt, sich in dieser Form zu begrenzen, was an den Tropfen des Wassers und an den übrigen flüssigen Körpern zur Erscheinung kommt, wenn sie sich aus sich selbst zu begrenzen streben."
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Nicolaus Coppernicus aus Thorn über die Kreisbewegungen der Weltkörper/Erstes Buch,, Capitel 1. Dass die Welt kugelförmig sei.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
1473 – 1543
preußischer Astronom, Domherr, Jurist und Mediziner
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